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36 Elvis Costello Quotes & Sayings
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36 Elvis Costello Quotes & Sayings
English
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Born: 25 August 1954 |
Musician
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Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere.
Elvis Costello
Good
Manners
Bad
Breadth
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Amused
Disgusted
Now
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There's no such thing as an original sin.
Elvis Costello
Original
Original Sin
Sin
Thing
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And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
Elvis Costello
Any
Beyond
Feel
Form
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.
Elvis Costello
Artists
Bit
Cases
Country
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But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.
Elvis Costello
Achieve
Could
Delivery
Man
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I find humming is very useful.
Elvis Costello
Find
Humming
Useful
Very
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I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.
Elvis Costello
Been
Different
Different Types
Listen
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Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.
Elvis Costello
Because
Everybody
Harmony
Just
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Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.
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Again
Always
Because
Could
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Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.
Elvis Costello
About
Admired
Beatles
Choices
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.
Elvis Costello
Different
Different Things
Holding
Lot
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Difficulty
I Write
Notes
Singing
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.
Elvis Costello
Critics
Lie
Many
Strengths
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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
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Curiosity
Ideas
Music
New
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Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written.
Elvis Costello
Album
Ever
Experience
Happened
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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
Elvis Costello
Different
Everybody
Everything
Experiences
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Elvis Costello
Differently
Hear
Men
Rhythm
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You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
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Going
Just
Need
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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
Elvis Costello
Life
My
Ultimate
Vocation
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I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
Elvis Costello
Believe
Connected
Human
I Believe
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People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.
Elvis Costello
Course
Me
People
Quotes
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I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.
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Certainly
Destroyed
Destroying
Ever
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My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.
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Call
Calls
Child
Convention
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Bigger
Just
Musician
Scale
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Life for me is about movement.
Elvis Costello
About
Life
Me
Movement
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I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
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Almost
Always
Bit
Felt
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I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic.
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Day
Ethic
Every
Every Single Hard
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You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.
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Bit
Careful
Instrument
Voice
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I think when I was younger I was not very good at writing love songs that didn't have a twist.
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Good
I Think
Love
Love Songs
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Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
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Cookie
Deeper
Fortune
Funnier
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Songs are more powerful than books.
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Books
More
Powerful
Songs
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Living a very long time would be a very scary thing.
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Living
Long
Long Time
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I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
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British
Felt
Identity
Interested
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The Internet is overrated. It's much smaller an innovation than people think it is. I don't think it's changed the way anybody makes music.
Elvis Costello
Anybody
Changed
Innovation
Internet
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I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.
Elvis Costello
Experience
Far
Had
Life
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Elvis Costello Quotes & Sayings